The Fence

By Daily Dew on Oct 15, 2014 11:31 pm

There was a little boy with a bad temper. His father gave him a bag of nails and told him that every
time he lost his temper, to hammer a nail in the back fence.
The first day the boy had driven 37 nails into the fence. Then it gradually dwindled down. He
discovered it was easier to hold his temper than to drive those nails into the fence.
Finally the day came when the boy didnt lose his temper at all. He told his father about it and the
father suggested that the boy now pull out one nail for each day that he was able to hold his temper.
The days passed and the young boy was finally able to tell his father that all the nails were gone.
The father took his son by the hand and led him to the fence. He said, You have done well, my son,
but look at the holes in the fence.
The fence will never be the same.
When you say things in anger, they leave a scar just like this one. You can put a knife in a man and
draw it out. It wont matter how many times you say Im sorry, the wound is still there.
A verbal wound is as bad as a physical one.
Meditation: And the tongue is a fire, a world of iniquity. The tongue is so set among our members
that it defiles the whole body, and sets on fire the course of nature; and it is set on fire by hell.
James 3:6
You will succeed in Jesus Name!